It’s an odd request from me today. I don’t like asking for this kind of help, because it feels disingenuous or silly. I appreciate you reading and talking about the story and your support on Patreon or just as fans, and I don’t want to make you do anything more. However, for the first time since the days of TopWebFiction, I am doing the thing. I am asking you to like, share, and subscribe…on the social medias!
Actually, just subscribe and never think about it again. Hear me out, because I have a story for you.
I can’t share the entire details, but I do work on secret projects now and then, like the plushies and more things I know readers actually want. Or I think they want, at least. In the course of talking with some very big names and companies, we were looking to get them to essentially accept The Wandering Inn as a viable commodity for their thing.
They were interested, but hadn’t heard of TWI, so they did what companies apparently do these days: checked out social media pages. Since we have like 100-1000 subscribers on any platform at the time of it, said company had very little confidence in a collaboration. We do have internal numbers on readers, but our (lack of) a social media presence apparently caused huge complications for the project.
For me, as an author who has not really wanted to do anything like Twitter or self-promotion because I spend all my time writing, it was an unpleasant lesson to be had. Social media size matters if we want companies who don’t know about us to give us the time of day. So–if you’ve seen ads for our various platforms, or more activity on Instagram, Facebook, etc., someone is managing it, and we do have actual content!
But this request from me is simple. Please, if you have a moment, dig up your Facebook account details, or Reddit, or any of the platforms where you can find TWI, and hit the subscribe button. Then you can never think on it again. I don’t need reposting or constant likes, I just need one number to go up so the next time a big name takes a look at us, they pay more attention.
Thanks for hearing out my request. It’s a lesson to other aspiring authors too–the Booktok and social media expert writers find more opportunites by a huge factor than I do, I know that for a fact. I’ve often heard it being said that a good writer is also a businessperson and marketer, and while you can do without those skills, it matters. Thankfully, I have help in my many deficient areas, and I’m trying to work on this one too.
–pirateaba
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